2020 New Random Pics

[flatbutt]

[rockfan4]

Originally Posted by masraum

All of those are very familiar to me except

Center one up from the bottom. What the hell is that?

We never had a TV with a remote quite that archaic, but we did have a remote that if you opened a can of beer or soda or you sneezed, the TV would change channels due to the sound.

And what the hell is the bottom right corner?

The rest I/we have had or experienced.

Center - one up from the bottom looks like a lighted makeup mirror.

Bottom right is a chalk holder for drawing a music staff on a blackboard.
Blackboards were like negative whiteboards.

Random horse.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by rockfan4

Center - one up from the bottom looks like a lighted makeup mirror.

Bottom right is a chalk holder for drawing a music staff on a blackboard.
Blackboards were like negative whiteboards.

Random horse.

I thought the same about the make-up mirror other than that the mirror is warped, but maybe that was to provide magnification.

Right, I remember chalkboards. I never took any music so never got to experience that chalk holder.

cool, thx.

[porsche930dude]

[GH85Carrera]

The same animal between 1886 and 2024
The turtle "Jonathan" is the oldest living terrestrial animal known in the world, born in 1832 and in 2024 he turned 192 years old.
He lived through the First and Second World Wars, the Russian Revolution, lived through seven British monarchs and 39 presidents of the United States.

[Por_sha911]

Sadly, some day this can be added to ancient artifacts


And now for something completely different

[GH85Carrera]

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

From the appearance of that tire it looks like the guy just left the shop.

[flatbutt]

oops

[GH85Carrera]

Ran when last used!

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by porsche930dude

Nice stance.

[GH85Carrera]

When the wife is away!


How many billions of dollars is floating in that bay and harbor?


Ouch!

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by porsche930dude

Wow. Memories. I built a badass push mower with big wheels like that when I was a kid. It may have been my first foray into the world of modifying vehicles.

[GH85Carrera]

MEANWHILE IN MONTANA: A handful of cows found their way into a newly built home and lived in it for a month before being noticed.
The family was moving from Washington. The Aunt was supposed to be checking on the place, but she didn’t. A rancher had filed a report about missing some cattle and even checked their barn, but not the house. They think a bad storm sent them looking for cover. They also think the storm blew a door in or somehow one of the cows nudged one open.


The field of image processing was kick-started at NBS in 1957 when staff member Russell Kirsch created the first ever digital image.
First digital image
The first digital image, created in 1957 with a rotating-drum scanner, first invented by NIST.
Credit: R. Kirsch/NIST

It was a grainy image of a baby—just 5 centimeters by 5 centimeters—but it turned out to be the well from which satellite imaging, CAT scans, bar codes on packaging, desktop publishing, digital photography and a host of other imaging technologies sprang.

In 1957 NIST computer pioneer Russell Kirsch asked, "What would happen if computers could look at pictures?" and helped start a revolution in information technology. Kirsch and his colleagues at NBS, who had developed the nation's first programmable computer, the Standards Eastern Automatic Computer (SEAC), created a rotating drum scanner and programming that allowed images to be fed into it. The first image scanned was a head-and-shoulders shot of Kirsch's three-month-old son Walden.

The ghostlike black-and-white photo only measured 176 pixels on a side—a far cry from today's megapixel digital snapshots—but it would become the Adam and Eve for all computer imaging to follow. In 2003, the editors of Life magazine honored Kirsch's image by naming it one of "the 100 photographs that changed the world."

Kirsch’s son Walden—whose face helped launch the era of computerized photography—works in communications for Intel following a successful career as a television news reporter.

[chapstic2001]

Now THAT is a flex

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

[GH85Carrera]

[GeorgeK]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

the 2nd car seems to have only a rear lid frame, no sheetmetal on it??
Edit: It's a turbo lid, less sheetmetal...

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GeorgeK

the 2nd car seems to have only a rear lid frame, no sheetmetal on it??
Edit: It's a turbo lid, less sheetmetal...

Looks like it's got wider flares, maybe it's a turbo that will get a fiberglass tail attached to the big hole in the rear lid?

BaT says this went for $7k!

[GH85Carrera]

[craigster59]

Roberto Clemente proudly stands on second after his 3000th hit